Imagine if the #fcc #notam warning network ran on distributed #Fediverse servicesβ¦
This also isn't centralized industrial networking's first wake up call π
#distributedchoice
There is clearly an opportunity to build a better future, one that commits to digital spaces that enhance our social and civic life; one that gives communities control over where and how they come together online.
#civics #distributedchoice #thefutureislocal
Welcome to Smalltown
an Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
https://publicinfrastructure.org/2022/09/28/welcome-to-smalltown/
@jcast every now and then the notion gets floated to replace #foodbanks with debit cards, granting the dignity of self-choice to recipients. 'Efficient' is considered a local thing.
This kind of reminds me of the reasons for the #Fediverse, by largely gifting #distributedchoice, it is better able to adapt to local conditions π
Whether that enhances conversation or not remains to be seen...
@ummjackson I envisage a semi-decentralized, hierarchies of localized authority feeding up and vetted on the way to the national brand. Think "Metro Media's holdings" as a federation of news media instead of an empire.
Since #scaleistheproblem I expect this push to #distributedchoice is inevitable.
Bits are needed, though, distributed identity for one, and the nature of trust will favour an opensource core (with local extensions)
This mini-rant about distributed perceptions strikes me as an good endorsement for the #Fediverse, letting people be who they are where they are, and granted #distributedchoice. #thefutureislocal
#justice #equity #diversity #inclusion #jedi
https://medieval-canadian.tumblr.com/post/691482216014938112
"the important fact is that this era existed, and the Web3 pitch pretends it didnβt. We already had decentralized internet with social features. This fact contradicts the story the Web3/blockchain advocates want to tell you"
#distributedchoice #decentralization #blogosphere #webhistory
Jonomancer β Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0
https://accordion-druid.tumblr.com/post/685175656750972928/dont-lie-to-me-about-web-20
"To love the little platoon we belong to in society is the first principle of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind."
#society #locality #equity #diversity #identity #belonging #ortegrity #democracy #distributedchoice #thefutureislocal
https://iai.tv/articles/hobbes-is-wrong-about-society-auid-2181
(tip:12ft.io can help scale any paywalls)
"software is a process, and whoever controls it ultimately decides what the developers can do and how they communicate"
#distributedchoice #decentralization #softwaredevelopment
State of the Forge Federation: 2021 to 2023 https://forgefriends.org/blog/2022/06/30/2022-06-state-forge-federation/
@galaxis If @elonmusk really wants to foster microblogging where folks can make their own rules about what is or is not allowed, maybe he could toss some VC at the #Fediverse? Way cheaper than trying to reform the entrenched! #distributedchoice #electiveaffinities #thefutureislocal
Once upon a time, long ago, in Toronto, there was this clan of ardent opensource freeks on a VC-backed quest to subvert the gatekeepers of recorded music...
#history #distributedchoice #p2p #whenwewasfab #filesharing #Swarmcast
"Imagine a music industry which, instead of investing in a single massive star called Elvis, distributed ten thousand stars, all recording for a dollar, in totally different styles, all appealing to small, highly self-conscious cults in a fragmented society. A society in a state of fabulous confusion, exploding into fragments. Our society, now."
- Momus, 1991
#fame #popculture #distributedchoice #electiveaffinities #thefutureislocal #peoplegetready #fediverse
The essay that just won't go away...
Momus, 1991: "In the future everyone will be famous to fifteen people."
#medialiteracy #internetliteracy #fame #popculture #distributedchoice #electiveaffinities #thefutureislocal #peoplegetready #fediverse
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